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What’s happening in Russia? Here’s what we know. [1]

['Mike Ives', 'Eric Nagourney']

Date: 2023-06-24

A powerful mercenary military leader brought in by President Vladimir Putin to help salvage his invasion of Ukraine has turned his guns on the Russian Army, and his tanks are prowling the streets of his own country.

What just happened?

With his regular forces bogged down in what a Russian general once predicted would be a “walk in the park” invasion, Mr. Putin last year turned for a help to a longtime political ally, Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, head of a notoriously brutal private army called Wagner.

Wagner did, in fact, notch up wins in Ukraine — but it soon became clear that Mr. Prigozhin, a tycoon with an ego to match the Russian president’s, was not content to limit his fight to one front.

Mr. Prigozhin bitterly lashed into Russian military leaders, accusing them of incompetence and of undermining his fighters.

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/24/world/europe/russia-prigozhin-wagner-chief-rostov.html?smid=url-share

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